Back Pain

If a doctor or an x-ray report has told you that you have degenerative disc disease, the name alone can sound alarming. It has the word disease in it, after all. But here is something that [...]

Low back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek care, but not all low back pain comes from the same place. Sometimes the real source is a pair of joints most people have never heard [...]

Spondylolisthesis is a mouthful of a word, but the idea behind it is simpler than it sounds. It describes what happens when one of the bones in your spine slips out of line with the one beneath [...]

You head out for a walk, and within a few minutes your legs start to feel heavy, tired, or crampy. You stop, lean on a railing or a shopping cart, and the discomfort fades. A few minutes later [...]

It might have started as a strange tingling in your leg. Or a sharp, burning pain that shoots through your hip when you stand up from your chair. Maybe it is a numbness in your foot that comes [...]

It usually starts in the lower back. A sharp, burning sensation that shoots down through your hip and into your leg. Sometimes it runs all the way to your foot. Some days it is a constant, aching [...]